Biography
Elsie Wagstaff (1 July 1899 – 16 July 1985) was an English actress. She was educated at the Guildhall School of Music. Her stage work began in the chorus in 1919, with early leading roles including Sadie Thompson in an adaptation of Somerset Maugham's Rain. In 1928 she appeared on Broadway in Diversion and The Wrecker.
She worked sporadically in films from the 1930s and with some regularity on television. Her film credits include Mrs Seaton in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), Auntie Dorothy in Whistle Down the Wind (1961) and the Wild One in Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974). She was married to Bernard Jukes from 1924 until his death in 1939.
